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Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iccs-brazen-anti-israel-bias-69e31511?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
The ICC's Brazen Anti-Israel Bias
(Wall Street Journal) Prof. Eugene Kontorovich - International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan applied for arrest warrants in late May based on war-crimes allegations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. By targeting a country with a well-functioning legal system that is taking unprecedented humanitarian precautions in an urban war, the ICC is making it more difficult for Western democracies to defend themselves against lawless terror groups. The prosecutor's decision was based in part on the advice of several consultants he had handpicked. Many of them already had a longstanding bias against the Jewish state; they've been publicly condemning Israel and declaring it guilty of war crimes for years. Mr. Khan chose them despite their strong, legally controversial stances on the issues they were supposed to examine neutrally. That he chose these advisers indicates that he valued certainty in the results above even the appearance of impartiality. The writer is a professor at George Mason University Law School and a scholar at the Kohelet Policy Forum.